Intro to App Building with Salesforce

Interested in an in-demand career with salaries up to six-figures? The job market for Salesforce professionals is growing, with over 300,000 job openings for Salesforce skills created last year*. In this class, you'll get a crash course in building simple employee-facing business apps that run on both a web browser and a mobile device - without writing any code!

This is not a sales pitch. I’m a Salesforce professional, and I’m passionate about bringing diversity to the tech sector and helping women learn about powerful career options.

Whether you’re familiar with Salesforce from your work experience or are just looking for a career in a hot field, join us to learn about app-building on Salesforce.

What this class will cover:

What is Salesforce and what are the career opportunities for Salesforce Admins and Developers?

App-building concepts including data modeling, user interfaces, business logic, reports, dashboards, and mobile.

Hands-on and guided project building to build a sample app in one day.

Introduction to Trailhead (https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/), a fun online learning platform for Salesforce.

Resources for connecting with the Salesforce community (https://success.salesforce.com/).

The tools for learning to develop with Salesforce are free:

Trailhead (https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/), the fun free way to learn Salesforce

Salesforce1 Mobile App (AppStore and Google Play)

Schedule:

This class will take place over 3 days in July:

• Monday, July 10, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

• Wednesday, July 12, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

• Monday, July 17, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

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Preparation & Prerequisites:

Students should be fairly familiar with using internet and mobile applications and Googling for answers to all of life’s questions. You do not need any prior Salesforce experience and do not need a Salesforce license.

All attendees are expected to abide by the Girl Develop It Code of Conduct (http://www.girldevelopit.com/codeofconduct).

Tech Requirements:

Please bring a laptop, not an iPad/tablet. The visual development tools only run on a modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 or later).

Financial Need:

A limited number of scholarships are available for those with a financial hardship. To apply, click here (https://docs.google.com/a/girldevelopit.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp=drive_web&formkey=dHktUTZVYlF6VWhsNVRab0o5R3JMSUE6MA#gid=0). Scholarship applicants will be notified shortly after the deadline. Class capacity does not impact scholarship students. Check out this info sheet (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B344HUnWO0EhOFI4SmpWVjE2Yms/edit?usp=sharing) about getting course fees covered by your employer.

About the Teacher:

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Aleisha Harris is a Salesforce Business Analyst who works with developers to configure, administer and maintain a 200-user Salesforce org. Aleisha knows that having an efficient, easy to use platform is key to business success. She believes in making the technology do a lot of the work and freeing people up to focus on other things.

Aleisha has worked in the non-profit and for-profit sectors implementing Salesforce and she holds two Salesforce certifications.

In her free time, Aleisha also volunteers with a non-profit program to help expose young girls to STEM in the hopes that they will pursue a career in the field.

Our TAs:

MJ Kahn

Jennifer Lee

Sydney Shillieto

A HUGE thank you to Veson Nautical (http://www.veson.com/) for hosting!

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